A South Wind Blows production, directed by Nuala O’Connor (in selected Irish cinemas from November 2018) By Conor McNamara An unprecedented popular interest in the history of the Irish Revolution has generated a plethora of documentaries and television series in recent years, kicked off by the uniquely emotive centenary of the 1916 Rising. Keepers of … Read more
Ulster Museum, Belfast www.nmni.com/our-museums/ulster-museum By Tony Canavan To mark the twentieth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the Ulster Museum has set up a new exhibition exploring the history of the Troubles, which examines Northern Ireland’s recent past through a range of objects reflecting diverse perspectives and experiences. Many objects were contributed by the public … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls During the Six Nations rugby championship we are regularly—even tediously—asked to contemplate battle with our ‘Celtic cousins’, yet a recent genetic study of Britain revealed no common link between the ‘Celtic’ peoples of these islands. As Caomhín De Barra explains in his intriguing The coming of the Celts AD 1860: … Read more
EDWARD BURKE Liverpool University Press £85 ISBN 9781786940971 Reviewed by Colin Wallace Colin Wallace was Senior Information Officer (Psychological Operations) at British Army headquarters in Northern Ireland from 1968 to 1975. One message remains clearly fixed in my mind from my earliest experiences of the British Army more than 50 years ago: ‘There are no … Read more
CONNAL PARR Oxford University Press £55 ISBN 9780198791591 Reviewed by Henry Patterson Henry Patterson is Professor Emeritus of Irish Politics at Ulster University. Connal Parr has written a cultural and sociological history of the Ulster Protestant community from the Home Rule period to the Peace Process focusing on the work of ten writers, the majority … Read more